IHI Open School Working Meeting

IHI OPEN SCHOOL WORKING MEETING

TUESDAY, MARCH 17th. 6:30pm

Location: School of Public Health, Room 2690 (this room is approximately above the Organ Room/Community Room where our last meeting was held)

Please join us next week to coordinate some exciting projects that are in the works. The focus of this meeting is to prioritize and move forward on the initiatives, and to begin to make our active presence known at the UoM. This is not intended to be a "general" meeting and will be a "working" meeting, but we hope to see everyone there!

IHI Update

Hi Everyone,

We’d like to update you on some IHI Open School happenings since our meeting last month. We are pursuing several exciting opportunities for active learning, on-site shadowing, and hands-on projects, as well as working to expand and improve our chapter of IHI OS. If you want to help us pursue any of these opportunities or take a leadership role in IHI OS, please contact me. Watch out for our next meeting at the end of this month.

—The IHI OS Team

1) We have been in touch with the leaders of the Idealized Patient Care Experience (IPCE) project at UMHS. This is essentially UMHS’s translation of the IOM’s Crossing the Quality Chasm. It sounds like there are opportunities for IHI OS learning and contribution. We'll be meeting with their team in the next week to discuss the details.

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/jbilli/files/ipce-workingdocument-06-24-08.pdf

2) We talked to Lee Green, a family physician and member of the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR). Their focus is on clinical and translational research; Dr. Green’s research centers on the theory behind changing physician/practitioner behavior, basically how to re-train/teach experts. MICHR seems to be connected with everything IHI-related in and around UoM, and Dr. Green believes students can be involved at any level that interests them, from attending meetings to improvement projects to theoretical research.

http://www.michr.umich.edu/about/

3) We talked to Marion Udow, a leader in the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation. They are currently involved in two pilot projects for teaching both patients and physicians about appropriate use of imaging w/ back pain (basically don’t do it!) and about sticking with medical therapy rather than cath/angio in patients with stable angina.

http://www.chrt.org/projects/delivery.html

4) We're still working on gaining entree into the School of Nursing to find students and/or faculty who are interested in engaging in the group. PLEASE HELP US! If you have any contacts at the nursing school or other helpful ideas, contact Jonathan: jdunford@umich.edu

5) We have created this blog for general dissemination of information, and are beginning a webpage. Stay tuned!